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Back left is just going ballz out. Impressive.Day 50, 15 after flip
One day after the thinning. I'm liking how they look. Back left girl is getting her stretch on. She's 8 inches above everyone else and she's not sitting on a riser, so she's a good 10 inches taller than her siblings. She has nice stocky stems to support what I hope becomes some donkey sized colas. Front left has a nice structure to her and is very level. She could surprise. Front right still hasn't started to flower and is the shorty of the group. She has 2 risers under her to make her even with the other 3. Back right is nice but doesn't seem to have as many tops. Front left will be next up for a drink. Maybe tomorrow AM. The right side girls will go a bit longer.
We are sadly in corporate 2% heaven . While we worry about our daily Bill's and now genuine survival , we cant worry about their open corruption and stealing from citizens in the form of taxes and worse of all PERMITS. your home but need permits to do anything in. lol. same in uk too. Any job costs a fee to them for letting you do it. We wanted some work doing for a simple keystone for a driveway. It will cost us £70 if we dont use their labour and that isnt for doing anything , that is a fee for us asking someone else to do the work !!!!!!!!. tip of a huge iceberg. While we all panic about money and covering the basics , they know we cannot risk losing jobs ect.. by standing up and being counted in civil unrest. We have Brexit here which is a huge distraction from the behind doors deals that have been done with Trump for our health service among other very dodgy deals. thankfully they got caught and now the public know they lied to them. Our whole political future is being waged over leaving the EU and the racist govt party have used the BBC ( corrupt govt controlled channel) to push a lot of propaganda and opposition party fake news( again caught out and being publically exposed. sorry for waffle but whole point is we are in their world for their benefit and labour , using their payment to buy their food to fuel our labour for their benefit !!!!. makes my ganjaworld even more attractive to live in.heehee
Mate you are in the ranks of my 420 heroes right now. Love this and will be following your recipes for using mc from the beginning next run . I have shogun silica now and still some.left but will be making this up . great post. With Emmy's calmag as well and mc , the costs of growing have just dropped dramatically for far superior to store bought salt based nutes. Thank youHere is another round of the Do-It-Yourself Faux Series. How to make your own Silica supplement similar to Dyna Gro Pro-Tek, Botanicare Silica Blast, General Hydroponics Armor SI, Grotek Pro-Silicate, Advanced Nutrients Rhino Skin, etc., we'll call it Faux-Tekt®.
First you need to acquire a bag of Potassium Silicate. I found mine on BuildASoil for $20 for a 1lb bag, including shipping. One pound will make about 3.5 quarts. Compare that to $18 for a single quart of Pro-Tekt and you can see the savings.
Next you need to measure out 32oz (1 quart) of RO or distilled water into a pot.
I just replaced the filters in my RO system, and I'm still working on flushing the tank, so my RO was at 50ppm. It will get lower over the next couple weeks as the system is purged.
My RO was 7.6 pH to start. That may get lower too over the next couple weeks. All that really maters is that you're using a good quality water to start with. My ppm and pH numbers are fairly inconsequential. I was just curious of the inputs.
Now that we have our 32oz of water, and our bag of Potassium Silicate. It's time to measure our how much powder we need. To make a quart of 7.8% solution (same as Pro-Tekt), we need 140g of Potassium Silicate. First we tare our scale with the container on it.
Next we measure out our powder.
Add our powder to the pot containing our water.
Turn the burner on medium heat and stir til dissolved. I heated mine until it was starting to put off a bit of steam but not to the point of boiling.
When you think its well dissolved, it will go from very cloudy white to slightly white but not perfectly clear, pour your concoction into a storage container. It filled my quart jar right to the rim.
That's it. You have just made your own Silica supplement at less than 1/3 the cost. Why pay for water? Buy the powder yourself and add your own water and save/spend your cash for something else.
sold!!!. how much are you selling bottles for??. heehee. love it and a well proven workaround. I d.i.y what I can dare use safely mate so right up my street. excellent proven product Farside. Make a sticky of this one mate.The quality control tests... To see how close my product is compared to Pro-tekt. I gathered a few numbers.
I poured a sample of Pro-Tekt into a cup and measured the starting pH, since Silica supplements are known to be alkaline in nature. It measured 11.5
I checked that result against my Faux-Tekt®. Same number, so we are good there.
Next I added 5ml of Pro-Tekt to a gallon of water to see the resulting ppm. I got 241.
I did the same with 5ml of Faux-Tekt® and came out with 254. Pretty close. The difference is most likely that I eyeballed the gallon rather that precisely measured it. My guess is the Pro-Tekt gallon had a tad bit more water in it. Either way, 13 points over 5ml, that's only a difference of 2.6ppm per ml.
Next I tested the Pro-Tekt gallon's pH. 8.5
Then the Faux-Tekt® gallon. Also 8.5
I added all the other components of my nute regiment. The Pro-Tekt gallon came out to 6.5, which is what I am shooting for. No other pH adjustments necessary.
The Faux-Tekt® gallon. Spot on also at 6.5.
Every one of my test showed the product to be equivalent. It looks like a winner.
